• Aragon Azcon launches his investiture with a strong tax cut and promises "harmony" with Vox despite their "differences"

Valencian Community, Extremadura, Balearic Islands... And the brooch was missing: Aragon. The Popular Party completes the regional record achieved on 28-M and governs in four enclaves so far of socialist domination. Jorge Azcón is from this Thursday the new president of Aragon thanks to a coalition of the popular and Vox, which in this region also has the support of the PAR.

The day was more than symbolic in the Cortes of Aragon, dyed green in honor of San Lorenzo, patron saint of Huesca, on his big day. Azcón will remember it as the day he comfortably achieved the majority to be invested: the 28 seats of the PP, added to the seven of Vox and that of Alberto Izquierdo, the deputy of the PAR, form a solid block that allows the popular to regain control of Aragon after eight years in the opposition and two socialist legislatures with Javier Lambán at the controls.

With the permission of the Region of Murcia, the Aragonese is the government pact between forces of the political right that has cost more time to move forward. In fact, the new opposition charged against Azcón in the investiture debate for having been the slowest candidate to articulate the necessary support: 75 days when he takes office this Friday and goes on to become one of the main territorial barons of the PP.

The entry of Vox into the Government of Aragon does not please the new opposition either, which is already trying to tie Azcón to his "toxic friends", as defined by the Chunta Aragonesista (CHA), despite having softened the alliance by including the PAR in the equation. The socialist spokeswoman, Mayte Pérez, warned that the region, because of the tax cut promised by the PP, will lose 200 million in cuts and will go to the "caboose" of the national economy.

Podemos blamed Azcón for allowing the entry of "ultra-right" and "recentralizing" forces, which seek the end of regional self-government and deny "the pillars of democracy." IU, for its part, described as "retrograde, liberticide and denialist" the political agenda that Azcón will execute from now on. All these parties voted against.

In the four large regions snatched from the PSOE, the PP has needed Vox to a greater or lesser extent. The popular Aragonese defend that their pact with those of Santiago Abascal is closer to the Balearic, although Azcón does include members of Vox in his government team. The initial idea of the popular in the region was to try to articulate the sufficient majority relying on the PAR and Aragon Exists, but it was not enough and finally had to give entry to Vox.

Specifically, the PP has handed over the portfolios of Agriculture and Territorial Development to the group commanded in the autonomy by Alejandro Nolasco. One of them will have the rank of vice-president. The PAR, for its part, does not obtain councils but five strategic general directions for the regionalists, who confront each other with Vox and say they have no relationship between them.

In any case, the PP steps on the accelerator after 75 days of complex negotiations with Vox and will arrive at the weekend having already celebrated the inauguration of the president. There remain, however, notable questions in the air, such as the names of Vox's advisors. A not minor issue, given the complications that those of Abascal are having to select institutional profiles in other regions.

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